49+ Spacex Launches Starlink Satellites Background. Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by spacex providing satellite internet access. The launch took place at 11:31 am edt, with a liftoff from cape canaveral air force station in florida.
The mission launched 60 starlink satellites to orbit. Spacex gave an update on early tests of its starlink satellite internet network, which showed speeds capable of playing online video games and streaming to date, spacex has launched about 650 of its version 1.0 satellites and is currently building a system of ground stations and user terminals to. Starlink satellite constellation of spacex.
Spacex has launched 60 mini satellites, the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage.
This is the fifteenth starlink launch thus far, and spacex has. It brings to 182 the number of spacecraft the firm has now put spacex has permission from regulators to launch up to 12,000 platforms but has talked of an eventual 40,000, depending on how the project develops. The company plans to begin limited commercial service across the northern united. The current launch schedule includes three more starlink launches this year, adding 180 more satellites.